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This week
Sunday 22 October 2006
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems with seasonal sentiments which include Rich Days, The Burning of the Leaves, Autumn Journal and October Dusk read by Jenny Coverack, Philip Franks and Andrew Sachs.
Featured poems
Rich Days by W.H.Davies From: The Book of a Thousand Poems Publ: Collins Educational
To Autumn by John Keats From: Keats - Poetical Works Publ: Oxford University Press
Fall, leaves, fall by Emily Brontë From: Selected Brontë Poems Publ: Basil Blackwell
The Burning of the Leaves (part 1) by Laurence Binyon From: The Burning of the Leaves and other Poems Publ: MacMillan & Co Ltd
Autumn by Patricia Beer From: Autumn Publ: Carcanet
Tell me not Here, it needs not saying.. by A.E Housman From: The Collected Poems of A.E Housman Publ: Jonathan Cape
Opening poem of 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
Life by Jo Shapcott From: Staying Alive Publ: Bloodaxe Books
There are Many Grapes this Year by Yehuda Amichai From: Selected Poems Publ: faber and faber
Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney From: Opened Ground Publ: faber and faber
The Huskers by John Greenleaf Whittier From: The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier Publ: Henry Frowde; Oxford University Press
October Dusk by Lennart Sjögren From: Modern Poetry in Translation, Volume 21, Looking Eastward Publ: King's College, London
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